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A day prior to Tom Glavine’s historic 300th career victory, Barry Bonds hit his 755th homer to tie Hank Aaron’s career mark, and Alex Rodriguez became the youngest player in major league history to hit his 500th homer.
Bonds’ record-tying Jimmy Jack (homer) was a 382-foot opposite field smash off San Diego Padre pitcher Clay Hensley in an away game.

When Bonds tied Hank Aaron with 755 homers, he had played in 343 less games than Aaron and had 2,596 less at bats.
Bonds would break Aaron’s record on August 7, 2007 with a 435-foot home run into the right-center field bleachers off Mike Bacsik of the Washington Nationals. His homer came on a 3-2 count.

Serious ball players are always looking for ways to get an edge on the competition – to gain an advantage. It’s why you spend so much time researching methods of training that will make you faster and stronger – without taking too much time to get results.

That’s why I believe that running hill sprints (which includes running bleachers and stairs) is a must for any baseball player looking to be the best.

This is because hill sprints provide a number of benefits to the baseball player. Here are the Top 5:

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Coaching a baseball team is not an easy task. Following these baseball coaching tips should help make the experience a positive one for both you and all your players.

Smells Like Team Spirit

The first of the baseball coaching tips revolves around the attitude your players bring to the field and apply to their day to day lives. When coaching a baseball team, not only do you have to deal with the good players’ egos in conjunction with the weaker players’ lack of confidence, you also have to try your best to instill a spirit of teamwork and camaraderie amongst your players. This has a two-fold objective. First, it allows players to co-operate better on the field, and it also shows them the advantages of maintain this attitude throughout all their daily interactions.

That One’s Outta There!

Nothing quite beats the sound of a bat cracking a pitch so perfectly that the batter barely even needs to look up to see it’s out of the park. A satisfying smile creeps across the batter’s face as they toss the vibrating bat aside, jogging the rounds of the bases with pride. The following baseball hitting drills aim to improve your team’s batting skills so that more players can experience the joy of cracking one out of the park.

Practice techniques

Your team will play like they practice. This age old saying is still true today. In the heat of battle, late in the game, or when they are tired or rattled, they will revert back to whatever skill level you have coached them to.

For example, if your practice regimen does not include a lot of footwork on grounders, during a rally inning against a good team, it will show with errors on routine plays. In the same scenario, if you don’t stress the importance of staying calm under pressure, or to stay positive and focused, your team may crumble.

From the beginning of spring through the summer playing season someone is always dropping a baseball glove off at “The Doctor’s” house to get a little baseball glove repair done on their glove. Most of these repairs are usually the same…broken laces in one or more places on the glove. Every time I repair one of these gloves I’m always thinking the same thing, “If this guy would have taken just a little bit of care of this glove…” You don’t have to go nuts with caring for the glove, but every little bit helps.